SIR – Recent pictures on BBC Parliament showing members of the House of Lords fast asleep during an all-night session will have been picked up by some foreign stations and probably broadcast on their comedy channels.
Unbelievably, there are now more members in the Lords than in the Commons, but if they can’t keep awake, what on earth are they doing there?
They should stay at home instead of becoming objects of ridicule, wasting taxpayers’ money and bringing Parliament in to disrepute.
The House of Peers did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
D Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
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